On a festive but GOREgeous edition of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio — scintillating paranormal talk Thursdays 9-11pE with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen — we welcome ace horror cartoonist and Life of Agony bassist/songwriter Alan...

On a festive and wintry edition of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio — Thursdays 9-11pE with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen — we revel in weird Christmas customs, the evolution of Santa Claus, and the recurrent War on Christmas with...

These days everybody thinks they know Krampus: the Germanic Christmas devil, the shadow to the light of St Nicholas. But no one in America knows Krampus like Al Ridenour, who has written a staggeringly informative and delightful book — The Krampus and the Old,...

Most fans of Christmas are aware that our jolly gift-giving Santa Claus evolved from the real-life St. Nicholas, the generous and kindly 3rd/4th century bishop who became the patron saint of children, sailors, the wrongly accused, and eventually pretty much everyone...